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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SOFT DRINKS will be tried by root-beer maker Charles E. Hires Co. This winter Hires will test ginger ale in Philadelphia area under brand name of "Purock." Scheduled for spring trials: grape, orange, perhaps cola flavors...
...Cents, W. H. Prosser's Nine to Five, Lawrence Schoonover's The Quick Brown Fox, are all business novels by authors who at one time or another have been in business themselves. Thus in Executive Suite, Author Cameron Hawley, a longtime executive of Armstrong Cork Co., can expertly detail for his readers the struggle to find a new president in a big corporation. Later, in Cash McCall, he attempts to explain the philosophy that drives men to seek wealth and power. Argues Hero McCall: "We maintain that the very foundation of our way of life is what...
What sent the bids soaring was the promise of the biggest oil pool in the West, under the barren Navajo buttes and mesas. Texas Co., which had started exploring the area about three years ago, recently drilled its exploratory Navajo C-4 well on tribal land located between the big Aneth oilfield in San Juan County, Utah and another series of proven wells farther south. Texas Co. wanted to find out how far the Aneth field went and whether the two pools might be connected. Though Texas Co. tried to keep the well secret, every oilman suspected that something...
After the sale Texas Co. announced that its Navajo C-4 was indeed a producing well, pumping an average 642 bbls. of high-grade oil daily, and oilmen felt much of the nearby leasehold could be considered proven oil land. Then two more wells came in on Navajo land. Superior Oil brought in its Navajo B-1 well, with 1,402 bbls. daily, and Gulf Oil brought in its Desert Creek No. 1 well...
When her husband died eleven months ago, Mrs. Charles Ulrick Bay, widow of the former U.S. Ambassador to Norway, found herself with 71% of the stock in Wall Street's venerable (since 1865) brokerage firm of A. M. Kidder & Co. Inc. But the New York Stock Exchange requires, in effect, that a stockholder who owns more than 45% of a member company's shares must either 1) sell the stock, or 2) take an active part in the firm. Since she always had an active interest in her husband's business and philanthropic dealings...